RE: Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-12 Thread Phillip H. Zakas
n Frissell Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet At 11:29 AM 1/10/01 +, Ken Brown wrote: >One of the interesting, and to my mind odd, things is that they >*aren't* "popping u

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-12 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 11:29 AM 1/10/01 +, Ken Brown wrote: >One of the interesting, and to my mind odd, things is that they >*aren't* "popping up in tax havens around the world". They are popping >up in little islands that are formally or effectively under British >colonial rule, if not actually occupied by the

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-10 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 01:11:01PM -0800, Tim May wrote: > I hope you don't do this. There have been several of these kinds of > collections--a guy at MIT has done at least a couple of them (I > forget his name, though three of my short pieces are in one of his > books: the books cost $40-60 or

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-10 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:22:52PM -0500, John Young wrote: > The full story of crypto is yet to be written, in particular its > deceptions, perhaps a piece by Vin McLelland, one by > Declan, one by Tim May, if not by distributed cyperhpunks > not quite so malleable as solo individuals given priv

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-10 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:22 PM 1/10/01 -0500, you wrote: NY Times has a story today about the offshores being pressured by the big nations to curtail tax evasion and avoidance. The islands first resisted assaults on their sovereignty, but have agreed to do a study of the issue. 1 ) Tax Havens, Wealthy Nations

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-10 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:54 AM 1/10/01 -0600, Jim Burnes wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2001 05:29, Ken Brown wrote: ... > The sun still doesn't set on the British Empire (not while we have > Pitcairn!), London is still the heart of darkness, it is is still the > place where the money is (most of the money in the wo

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-10 Thread John Young
NY Times has a story today about the offshores being pressured by the big nations to curtail tax evasion and avoidance. The islands first resisted assaults on their sovereignty, but have agreed to do a study of the issue. On a related matter is the likelihood of nations and private interests enga

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-10 Thread Jim Burnes
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 05:29, Ken Brown wrote: ... > The sun still doesn't set on the British Empire (not while we have > Pitcairn!), London is still the heart of darkness, it is is still the > place where the money is (most of the money in the world, by orders of > magnitude, is in meaningl

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-10 Thread Ken Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] posted: > > As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., > Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet > By MICHAEL ALLEN [...] > Plenty of dot-coms are asking themselves the same question these days. Undaunted > by their industry's growing ranks of flameouts and hoping to

As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-09 Thread mean-green
As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet By MICHAEL ALLEN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Operating out of a hurricane-proof command center in a former U.S. military base, Paven Bratch is a tax examiner's nightmare. Although his Int